Kids UP Inc. of Belgrade, Montana builds pediatric wheelchairs
| March 14, 2008 |  View for printing |
For those children who need them, wheelchairs represent mobility and freedom, but for wheelchair designer Wayne Hanson, that just isn't good enough.
"When a child sits in a traditional wheelchair, they're trapped," Hanson said.
That's why Hanson and his company, Kids UP Inc. http://www.kidsupco.com/index.html , have spent the past six months designing a new chair that not only grows with its user but allows the child to flex and bend naturally.
By MICHAEL BECKER Bozeman Daily Chronicle
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